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Amazon Prime Video now works with Chromecast, and YouTube comes to Fire TV devices

Jul10
by on July 10, 2019 at 5:34 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Plugged


Couch potatoes rejoice: you can finally stream Amazon Prime Video using Chromecast dongles, and YouTube support has returned to Amazon‘s Fire line of streaming devices. The double whammy is the result of Google and Amazon making good on their promise from April to bury the hatchet over their streaming video services. While both companies sell devices to beam content to your TVs, they’d previously restricted access to their services on each other’s dongles. It’s really as petty and stupid as it sounds. In any case, this is great news for people who own either or both companies’ streaming gadgets. If…

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President Trump can’t block you on Twitter, federal court rules

Jul10
by on July 10, 2019 at 4:20 am
Posted In: Around the Web, world


A US federal court has ruled today that President Donald Trump can’t block his haters on Twitter. The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit situated in New York said that since Trump uses the social network to communicate matters related to government affairs, he can’t bar some Americans from accessing that information. A three-judge bench ruled unanimously in favor of the verdict.  Judge Barrington D. Parker wrote in the ruling that the first amendment bars any official who uses social media to communicate with common folk can’t exclude people from an “otherwise open online dialogue.”  President Trump, who has nearly 62…

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Cuphead is coming to Netflix — and it’d better be dark as pitch

Jul09
by on July 9, 2019 at 11:53 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


Cuphead, cartoonish indie platformer darling, is getting its own Netflix show, according to its developers at Studio MDHR. The show, which will be made by Netflix Animation, will be called The Cuphead Show! As a fan of the game, I can only hope the trademark dark edge makes it into the show — because anyone who’s played the game will know it’s not for the most sensitive of souls. Coming to you in full color and cine-sound, it’s…The Cuphead Show! Witness the wondrous Inkwell Isles as you’ve never seen them before in an original series inspired by classic animation styles…

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